Robert B Leflar
Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
A.B., J.D., M.P.H.
Email: rbleflar@uark.eduPhone: (479) 575-2709
Professor Robert Leflar's teaching and research focus on torts, health law, and related fields. He teaches first-year torts and upper-level courses and seminars in products liability, health law and policy, bioethics and law, and defamation and privacy. He writes on the topic of comparative international law, particularly regarding Japan.
A native of Fayetteville, Leflar earned his bachelor's, J.D., and master's in public health from Harvard University. Prior to teaching law, he clerked for Judge George Edwards in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, and was a staff attorney for Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the bars of Arkansas, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. A devoted baseball fan, he is active in various public interest organizations, such as the Arkansas chapter of the Sierra Club.
Professor Leflar has been awarded several fellowships for study in Japan, including a Fulbright grant, Japan Foundation fellowship, and, most recently, grants from the Center for Global Partnership and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for a research project comparing medical quality control in Japan and the United States.
He has lectured, often in Japanese, at Tokyo University and other universities in Japan and at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and several international conferences. He has published articles about Japan in American, Japanese, and European journals. His book (in Japanese) on the development of informed consent in Japanese medicine and law was published in 2002.
Publications & Links
"Medical Error as Reportable Event; as Tort; as Crime: A Transpacific Comparison," 12 Widener L. Rev. 189-225 (2005)
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